REU Site: Next generation Evolutionary Biology

REU 网站：下一代进化生物学

• 批准号: 1560116
• 负责人: Marymegan Daly
• 金额: $ 27.91万
• 依托单位: Ohio State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-09-15 至 2020-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1560116&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Next; generation; Evolutionary

This REU Site award to Ohio State University, located in Columbus, OH, will support the training of 10 students for 10 weeks during the summers of 2017- 2019. This program will recruit rising sophomores and juniors to collaborate with research mentors from the Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology to address questions about evolutionary relationships among plants, microbes, or animals using leading-edge molecular biology and informatics techniques for massively parallel DNA sequence data. In addition to developing skills in research project design, data collection, and analysis, this program will focus on professional development of the students, including meetings with biologists in industry, natural resource management, and the Columbus Zoo. Students will be recruited through websites, recruitment visits to undergraduate student groups, and social media. Matching between students and potential mentors will be done by a selection committee including the PIs and a subset of potential mentors who will consider the student's research interests and professional goals. It is anticipated that a total of 30 students, primarily from schools with limited research opportunities, will be trained in the program. Students from diverse backgrounds will be recruited from institutions within OSU's Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation and from OSU regional campuses in rural Ohio. Because the target population is rising sophomores and juniors, the REU program includes extensive career exploration and professional development, with the expectation that these will increase significantly the impact for students as they navigate subsequent academic and professional opportunities. Students will learn how research is conducted, and many will present the results of their work at scientific conferences.A common web-based assessment tool used by all REU programs funded by the Division of Biological Infrastructure (Directorate for Biological Sciences) will be used to determine the effectiveness of the training program. Students will be tracked after the program in order to determine their career paths. Students will be asked to respond to an automatic email sent via the NSF reporting system. More information about the program is available by visiting http://eeob.osu.edu/NextGenREU, or by contacting the PI (Dr. Marymegan Daly at [e-mail]) or the co-PI (Dr. Bryan Carstens at [e-mail]).

这项授予俄亥俄州立大学的REU网站奖，位于俄亥俄州哥伦布，将在2017年至2019年的夏季为10周的10周培训。该计划将招募大二学生和大三学生与来自的研究导师合作进化，生态学和生物学生物学，以使用前沿分子生物学和信息学技术来解决有关植物，微生物或动物之间进化关系的问题，以进行大量平行的DNA序列数据。除了开发研究项目设计，数据收集和分析方面的技能外，该计划还将侧重于学生的专业发展，包括与工业，自然资源管理和哥伦布动物园的生物学家会议。学生将通过网站招募，对本科生团体的招聘访问和社交媒体。学生与潜在的导师之间的匹配将由选拔委员会（PIS）和一部分潜在导师组成，他们将考虑学生的研究兴趣和专业目标。 预计总共有30名学生，主要来自研究机会有限的学校，将在该计划中接受培训。来自不同背景的学生将从OSU路易斯·斯托克斯联盟（Louis Stokes Alliance）的机构中招募，以供少数民族参与以及俄亥俄州农村地区的OSU地区校园。由于目标人群的大二和大三学生正在上升，因此REU计划包括广泛的职业探索和专业发展，并期望这些计划会在学生导航随后的学术和专业机会时会大大增加对他们的影响。学生将学习如何进行研究，许多人将在科学会议上介绍他们的工作结果。所有由生物基础设施部（生物科学局）资助的所有REU计划使用的常见基于Web的评估工具将用于确定培训计划的有效性。计划后将跟踪学生，以确定自己的职业道路。将要求学生回复通过NSF报告系统发送的自动电子邮件。有关该计划的更多信息，请访问http://eeob.osu.edu/nextgenreu，或通过与PI联系（[e-mail]）或Co-pi（Bryan Carstens博士）与PI联系（Marymegan daly博士）在[e-mail]）。